If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

Listening is about making and strengthening a connection with another person.

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.